Joystiq [Nintendo]

We have some sad news for you. The Nyko Party Station, once destined to grace tables nationwide, cooling drinks and hands, holding delicious snacks, and keeping pan-game scores, has met with an early end. According to an email from Nyko, the components were too expensive for their desired price point-- they would have had to charge $50 or more instead of $25.

That's actually not too hard to believe; the thing was full of functions-- LCD score counters, hand fan, drink coolers, partying spirit. It was too much party for one station to handle. Like heroic Slurms Mckenzie, it just couldn't sustain the volume of partying expected of it. There's still hope that the Party Station will come back some day, if Nyko can get the costs down.

Ironically, right before we started writing this post, we knocked four warm sodas over, ruining the four Wiimotes lying flat on the table and soaking a paper plate full of tortilla chips. It was so upsetting that we forgot who was winning the Wii Sports tournament taking place in the room. It made us kind of nervous, and now our hands are all sweaty.